Sorry for the bad pun.
Well yet another causality to add to the ever growing list of one of my sites. They come and they go I guess. It’s never easy to see someone you work with move on but it’s just the life of a website. It’s hard for people to understand what it takes to run a website when it’s mostly community based. It’s not for everyone. I try to find people I think can handle the stress involved. A lot of people think oh great I going to be a part of this site but they don’t realize that you have to make certain sacrifices as well. I’m not saying my way is the best way to run a site but it is my way cause it is my site.
There are many times when I take something someone says to me or about me personally and it does get to me. But the bigger picture is the site itself. If I started banning everyone that didn’t agree with everything I did then I would be pretty lonely on my site all by myself. It’s not easy being the person that has the control. You get most of the hate and little of the praise. I have dealt with most every type of person online. I’ve had people bad mouth me, threaten me, try to make me quit, ddos my site, and every other hateful thing you can think of. Yet i’m still here. And further more many of those same people that did and said those hurtful things are still on my site.
It’s not easy to take that sort of abuse and continue on with your role on a site. It is easier to just quit and move on. I did it on XT for those that remember. It’s a hard role to take and even harder to keep taking. There are many people out there that don’t like me and i’m ok with that. Most of them don’t really know me. I take what I do on techgear seriously. I only give people power over things on my sites when I truly trust them and think they deserve it.
I do forgive too easily sometimes. I choose not to live my online life full of hate for others I do not really know. I’ve tried my best to make techgear a place for everyone. Not just people I like. I hate losing people this way but it’s happened before and I will not get upset about it. I will however be disappointed because one of the things I enjoy most about techgear is working on it with friends. I miss the old days when I had people to chat with about ideas and code for the site. It has become more of a one man show now I guess. Ozzy is into his thing which I think is fantastic and with X gone now it’s back to just me. But things will continue to move forward. I will continue to do what I think is best for the site and it’s community. All I can say is good luck X you will be missed and thank you for all the work you put in on techgear. It was appreciated by more than you realize.